Podcast with Stuart Murray and David Tabron In this episode, Brandy speaks to Stuart Murray and David Tabron. David works for Blueberry Academy, a business that operates in special educational needs. “We’re a training provider, a post-16 training provider. And we also operate in health and social care,” David explains. Blueberry Academy was set up […]
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Bittersweet Potatoes: Noura Kevorkian, Documentary Film Maker, Reflects on the Plight and Resilience of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Interview with Noura Kevorkian by Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent In this podcast, Noura Kevorkian discusses the personal and professional journey of her award-winning documentary ‘Batata’, its impact on the film’s protagonists, and how the film advocates for the rights of refugees around the world. Noura Kevorkian is a Syrian/ Lebanese documentary […]
Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
Podcast with Luna Dolezal and Emily Silverman In today’s podcast, we look at the lasting consequences of shame in Medicine with Nocturnist creator Emily Silverman and Professor Luna Dolezal. Emily Silverman, MD is an internal medicine physician in San Francisco, Assistant Volunteer Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and […]
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health
Podcast with Brandy Schillace David Brown interviewed Brandy Schillace on the Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health podcast about how she came to be a writer and to edit the Medical Humanities journal, and her vision for the journal and for the field of Medical Humanities as a whole. Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health […]
Immersive and Interactive: Accessibility Theatre and LivingBodiesObjects
Podcast with Amelia DeFalco and Steve Byrne about Interplay Theater The Wellcome-funded project LivingBodiesObjects: Technologies and the Spaces of Health is currently partnering with Interplay National Sensory Theatre, an innovative theatre company that employs sensory engagement in ways that highlight the audience’s embodiment as much as the performers’. LBO and Interplay are exploring techniques and […]
Lawand: From Voiceless to a Voice Representing the Deaf Community and British Sign Language (BSL)
Podcast Interview with Edward Lovelace Interviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, Global Health Film Fellow, and co-founder of ‘Medfest Egypt’. In this podcast Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, interviews British documentary filmmaker, Edward Lovelace and discusses his film ‘’Name me Lawand’’. The film is a rapturous portrait of a deaf […]
Finding the Right Words, a book on Grief, Dementia, and Literature
Podcast with Cindy Weinstein In this episode, we get to speak with Cindy Weinstein, co-author of FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS, a memoir about losing a parent after a ten-year struggle with dementia. Weinstein is the Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of American Literature at the California Institute of Technology, where she has taught and written […]
Infectious Disease Epidemics and Inequality
EIC Brandy Schillace Interviews John Wright On today’s Medical Humanities podcast, we have author, doctor and epidemiologist John Wright, director of the Bradford Institute for Health Research. You might know him for his books Magic and Medicine: Tales from a Rural African Hospital, or the intense Ebola Diaries, but today we are talking about his […]
Body Talk: “Corporeal Pedagogies” with Dr Sally Waite and Dr Olivia Turner
Podcast with Dr. Sally Waite and Dr. Olivia Turner In this podcast episode, Drs. Sally Waite and Olivia Turner share what it means to do “corporeal pedagogy,” a form of learning and teaching that suspends conventional modes of Western education, particularly within a university setting, to facilitate embodied and haptic learning and productions of knowledge. […]
Posthumanism and the LivingBodiesObject Project
Podcast with Stuart Murray and Amelia DeFalco in conversation with EIC Brandy Schillace Today we are pleased to speak with Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film, and Amelia DeFalco, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities in the School of English, University of Leeds. We at Medical Humanities have been following a new project they […]